[PATCH] RTC subsystem: dev interface
Add the dev interface to the RTC subsystem.
Each RTC will be available under /dev/rtcX . A symlink from /dev/rtc0 to
/dev/rtc cab be obtained with the following udev rule:
KERNEL=="rtc0", SYMLINK+="rtc"
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
index 200fb06..8e4dc32 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called rtc-proc.
+config RTC_INTF_DEV
+ tristate "dev"
+ depends on RTC_CLASS
+ default RTC_CLASS
+ help
+ Say yes here if you want to use your RTC using the dev
+ interface, /dev/rtc .
+
+ This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
+ will be called rtc-dev.
+
comment "RTC drivers"
depends on RTC_CLASS